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Caravan, Vol. 51, No. 12

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CAi^iaMCkn
Vol. 61: No. IZ
CAIRO, WEDNESDAY, 20 DECEMBER 1972
ONE PIASTER
Sawt Al-Gaami’*a makes its debut
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with front page censorship story
Sawt al-Gaaini”a (The Voice of the University), the long-awaited we^y newspaper of Cairo University’s Institute of Communication, made its debut Monday fa b(dd colors and fa Ixdd voice. It was originally scheduled to appear in October.
Proclaiming its Identity fa red letters, the paper reported on its front page the mass meeting of students Sunday which demanded the abolition of the disciplinary council
The article was " printed hnmediat^y beneath a cartoon by Al-Ahraam’s Salah Jaahiyn fa which a student asks ivether the world is round or flat and a pious professor retorts : «It is not for us to meddle in politics, my boy. »
The cartoon was a debut gift from Mr. Jaahiyn, who is probably the most famous cartoonist outside Europe and America, Three sprightly cartoons on inside pages were unsigned and a fifth was signed al-haawin (The Mortar),
The front page was in full-sise, eight-column format. ’The other pages were in five-column tabloid format, printed sideways on the full-size sheets.
The numbering of the tabloid pages, ten in all, was hard to follow. Pages 2 and 11 were on the back of the front page. Pages 6 and 7 made a ciuioua continuum across the back of the paper. They were entirely given over to opinion and snippets from newspapers of the 1920s.
Like the national newspapers in these days of newsprint shortage, the outside double page of Sawi; al-Gaa-rai”a is of better quality and whiter than the inside sheet of four tabloid pages,
A dispute among the engineering faculties of (IJairo, «,ASTljtehams, and Al-Azhar universities over failure-ma^e^ examinations was the lead story bannered across the front page. It was dull. The page carried also a crisp interview with Tawfiyq al-Hakiym on the generation gap (He says don’t worry about it) and red and black ^play advertisements for eyeglasses, perfume, and television sets.
Unlike CARAVAN, the paper gave no by-lines to reporters. Nor did it give the names of the directorship. The student editors are to be named today by the bold of directors, which is composed of four students and an imdisclosed number of professors. Galaal al-Diyn al-Hamamsiy, a visiting professor of journalism and an editor of AJ-Ahraam, is regarded as the directing spirit of the paper. It is printed at Al-Akhbaar.
Mr. Hamamsiy wrote a letter of introduction to readers. on the front, page, saying the paper was a workshop for the 250 second-year students at the institute. CARAVAN has been workshop and showct^e for about twenty-five A.U.C, student journalists for more than a year.
Another small article on page 1 told readers how to go about the gymnastics of reading a part-tabloid paper with pages printed at right angles to one another. The compound format, it said, was to give students variety in layout work. It pleaded for readers’ patience.
Mr. Hamamsiy said advertisers--paid LR. 2 per square centimeter. The paper contained 2465 square centimeters of advertising, , which would mean revenues totalling L.E. 4930. Like CARAVAN, Sawt al-Gaami”a. ^Us for one piaster. CARAVAN has almost no advertising income and-its annual budget is a bare LJE. 5.000.
Sawt al Gaanii”a’s budget is LJE. 10.00, only twice as much as CARAVAN’S, but its policy is to achieve self-sufficiency through advertising. This is still no more ‘than a fond and distant dream for CARAVAN, Sawt-at-Gaami”a has several continuing contracts for advertising. Al-Akhbaar, as agent, takes a cut of the advertising income. The percentage .is secret
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About one hundred students gailieiing in front of Oriental Hall on Monday to protest A.U.C.’s surrender to authorities of tape recordings of Yuwsif Idriys’s 18 November lecture on the baoksling of Egyptian Youth.
One hundred students make protest on A.U.C’s surrender of Idricys tapes
About a hundred students of the American University in Cairo had an impromptu gathering in the Blue Room on Monday. The two-hour meeting was initiated by Shahijrra Fawziy, English Language Institute student, to express solidarity with students in the national universities.
When Miss Fawziy at first tried to assemble the students in front of Oriental Hall on the main campus Nadiya Abdalah, graduate in Mass Communication and a member of the High Board reported the matter to Frank W, Blanning. Dean of Students.
Dean Blanning asked her to move to the Blue Room where all students could say their views openly. The High Board members were also summoned for the same purpose.
. In the Blue Room, Miss Fawziy were said that a ta:pe recrding of Dr. Yuwsif Idriys’s public lecture on youth on 18 November was turned over to the authorities by the sequestrator. Dr. Hussayn Fawziy.
« AM al-”Aziyz ”Azz ah-’’Arab, junior in EJconomics and president of the Arabic Culture Club, which sponsored the lecture, prot^ted that the sequestrater had no right to hand over the tape without getting permission from the High Board, which is responsible for student activities,
Taariq Saalih, president of the High Board, declared the meeting closM to the public and ordered another session to be held in closed session.
Another closed meeting was held immediately afterward in the Office of
Student Affairs. The meeting lasted two hours. It was attended by Dean Blanning. High B o a r d members, and Ilhaam Kha-liyl, speaker of the Parliament.- A CARAVAN reporter was refused entry.
The meeting resolvM that the High B&ard will in future acquire tape recording equipment to record all lectures held on campus and to keep these in its custody. The- Board wrill also investigate Miss Fawziy’s allegations.
On Mr. Idriys’s lecture, the High Board was told by the Media Outer that the tape recording of it was handed over to Dr. Fawziy on 20 November at his request. The imiveisity has no formal policy concerning lecording of lec-tui'es.
Asked about the meeting
Dean Blanning said : «Any person who gets up and says that she is holding a mass meeting with no information is an insult to the students and the intellectual reputation of the university.»
Al - MansuwT al - 'Tarriy, senior in Economics said that it was « like an iceberg upside down. A lot on the surface and nothing beneath it.»
Dr. Roger Heacock, visiting assistant professor of history and the only faculty member who W'as present at the meetings said that he thought the confusion resulted from the disorganized manner in which the meeting was conducted and not from the issues brought up. The issues, he said, ♦ were interdependent and relevant to each other. »

CAi^iaMCkn
Vol. 61: No. IZ
CAIRO, WEDNESDAY, 20 DECEMBER 1972
ONE PIASTER
Sawt Al-Gaami’*a makes its debut
A
with front page censorship story
Sawt al-Gaaini”a (The Voice of the University), the long-awaited we^y newspaper of Cairo University’s Institute of Communication, made its debut Monday fa b(dd colors and fa Ixdd voice. It was originally scheduled to appear in October.
Proclaiming its Identity fa red letters, the paper reported on its front page the mass meeting of students Sunday which demanded the abolition of the disciplinary council
The article was " printed hnmediat^y beneath a cartoon by Al-Ahraam’s Salah Jaahiyn fa which a student asks ivether the world is round or flat and a pious professor retorts : «It is not for us to meddle in politics, my boy. »
The cartoon was a debut gift from Mr. Jaahiyn, who is probably the most famous cartoonist outside Europe and America, Three sprightly cartoons on inside pages were unsigned and a fifth was signed al-haawin (The Mortar),
The front page was in full-sise, eight-column format. ’The other pages were in five-column tabloid format, printed sideways on the full-size sheets.
The numbering of the tabloid pages, ten in all, was hard to follow. Pages 2 and 11 were on the back of the front page. Pages 6 and 7 made a ciuioua continuum across the back of the paper. They were entirely given over to opinion and snippets from newspapers of the 1920s.
Like the national newspapers in these days of newsprint shortage, the outside double page of Sawi; al-Gaa-rai”a is of better quality and whiter than the inside sheet of four tabloid pages,
A dispute among the engineering faculties of (IJairo, «,ASTljtehams, and Al-Azhar universities over failure-ma^e^ examinations was the lead story bannered across the front page. It was dull. The page carried also a crisp interview with Tawfiyq al-Hakiym on the generation gap (He says don’t worry about it) and red and black ^play advertisements for eyeglasses, perfume, and television sets.
Unlike CARAVAN, the paper gave no by-lines to reporters. Nor did it give the names of the directorship. The student editors are to be named today by the bold of directors, which is composed of four students and an imdisclosed number of professors. Galaal al-Diyn al-Hamamsiy, a visiting professor of journalism and an editor of AJ-Ahraam, is regarded as the directing spirit of the paper. It is printed at Al-Akhbaar.
Mr. Hamamsiy wrote a letter of introduction to readers. on the front, page, saying the paper was a workshop for the 250 second-year students at the institute. CARAVAN has been workshop and showct^e for about twenty-five A.U.C, student journalists for more than a year.
Another small article on page 1 told readers how to go about the gymnastics of reading a part-tabloid paper with pages printed at right angles to one another. The compound format, it said, was to give students variety in layout work. It pleaded for readers’ patience.
Mr. Hamamsiy said advertisers--paid LR. 2 per square centimeter. The paper contained 2465 square centimeters of advertising, , which would mean revenues totalling L.E. 4930. Like CARAVAN, Sawt al-Gaami”a. ^Us for one piaster. CARAVAN has almost no advertising income and-its annual budget is a bare LJE. 5.000.
Sawt al Gaanii”a’s budget is LJE. 10.00, only twice as much as CARAVAN’S, but its policy is to achieve self-sufficiency through advertising. This is still no more ‘than a fond and distant dream for CARAVAN, Sawt-at-Gaami”a has several continuing contracts for advertising. Al-Akhbaar, as agent, takes a cut of the advertising income. The percentage .is secret
• ^ . . :.v.
ff' % •
1 ' " V- .
About one hundred students gailieiing in front of Oriental Hall on Monday to protest A.U.C.’s surrender to authorities of tape recordings of Yuwsif Idriys’s 18 November lecture on the baoksling of Egyptian Youth.
One hundred students make protest on A.U.C’s surrender of Idricys tapes
About a hundred students of the American University in Cairo had an impromptu gathering in the Blue Room on Monday. The two-hour meeting was initiated by Shahijrra Fawziy, English Language Institute student, to express solidarity with students in the national universities.
When Miss Fawziy at first tried to assemble the students in front of Oriental Hall on the main campus Nadiya Abdalah, graduate in Mass Communication and a member of the High Board reported the matter to Frank W, Blanning. Dean of Students.
Dean Blanning asked her to move to the Blue Room where all students could say their views openly. The High Board members were also summoned for the same purpose.
. In the Blue Room, Miss Fawziy were said that a ta:pe recrding of Dr. Yuwsif Idriys’s public lecture on youth on 18 November was turned over to the authorities by the sequestrator. Dr. Hussayn Fawziy.
« AM al-”Aziyz ”Azz ah-’’Arab, junior in EJconomics and president of the Arabic Culture Club, which sponsored the lecture, prot^ted that the sequestrater had no right to hand over the tape without getting permission from the High Board, which is responsible for student activities,
Taariq Saalih, president of the High Board, declared the meeting closM to the public and ordered another session to be held in closed session.
Another closed meeting was held immediately afterward in the Office of
Student Affairs. The meeting lasted two hours. It was attended by Dean Blanning. High B o a r d members, and Ilhaam Kha-liyl, speaker of the Parliament.- A CARAVAN reporter was refused entry.
The meeting resolvM that the High B&ard will in future acquire tape recording equipment to record all lectures held on campus and to keep these in its custody. The- Board wrill also investigate Miss Fawziy’s allegations.
On Mr. Idriys’s lecture, the High Board was told by the Media Outer that the tape recording of it was handed over to Dr. Fawziy on 20 November at his request. The imiveisity has no formal policy concerning lecording of lec-tui'es.
Asked about the meeting
Dean Blanning said : «Any person who gets up and says that she is holding a mass meeting with no information is an insult to the students and the intellectual reputation of the university.»
Al - MansuwT al - 'Tarriy, senior in Economics said that it was « like an iceberg upside down. A lot on the surface and nothing beneath it.»
Dr. Roger Heacock, visiting assistant professor of history and the only faculty member who W'as present at the meetings said that he thought the confusion resulted from the disorganized manner in which the meeting was conducted and not from the issues brought up. The issues, he said, ♦ were interdependent and relevant to each other. »